Agra Canal
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The Agra Canal is an important Indian irrigation work which starts from Okhla in Delhi. The Agra canal originates at the Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge.<ref>Agra Canal Modernization Project Template:Webarchive</ref>
The canal receives its water from the Yamuna River at Okhla, about Template:Convert to the south of New Delhi. The weir across the Yamuna was constructed of locally quarried stone.<ref name="jones"/> It was about Template:Convert long, and rises seven feet above the summer level of the river.
From Okhla the canal follows a route south then southeast for Template:Convert in the high land between the Khari-Nadi and the Yamuna and finally joins the Utanga River about Template:Convert below Agra.<ref name="jones">Template:Cite book</ref> Navigable branches connect the canal with Mathura and Agra.<ref>Template:Cite EB1911.</ref> The canal irrigates about Template:Convert in Agra, and Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, Faridabad in Haryana, Bharatpur in Rajasthan and also some parts of Delhi.
HistoryEdit
The canal opened in the year 1874. In the beginning, it was available for navigation, in Delhi, erstwhile Gurgaon, Mathura and Agra Districts, and Bharatpur State. Later, navigation was stopped in 1904 and the canal has, since then, been exclusively used for irrigation purposes only. At present, the canal does not flow in Gurgaon district, but only in Faridabad, which was earlier a part of Gurgaon.
In recent times, Agra canal is an important landmark which separates Greater Faridabad from Faridabad.
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